Marca 27, 1915] Two HuxpnED Twenty Six New Sercies—I 2597 
burly, oderless and tasteless; bark relatively thin, smooth, 
brown mixed with gray on the branches, reddish beneath 
the epidermis; branchlets freely rebranched, the ultimate 
ones rather slender and terete, the young portion densely cov- 
ered with subolivaceus short hairs. Leaves alternate, thinly 
coriaceous, descending, lucid green and glabrous on the up- 
er folded side; the slender and sharply acuminate apex re- 
curved, paler and short pubescent beneath, ultimately also 
glabrous, base usually rounded, . oblong or ovately so, the 
normal blades 15 cm long, 6 cm wide; frequently smaller, 
curing nearly umber brown, entire; midrib pronounced and 
olivaceus puberulent beneath, impressed and in the early 
state puberulent on the upper side; lateral nerves 5 to 8 
pairs, ascendingly curved, tips anastomosing, similar to the 
midrib on the nether side, reticulations quite evident; peti- 
ole divaricate, terete, olivaceus pubescent especially when 
young, thickened at both ends, Infrutescence lateral and 
below the foliage or from the lowermost leaf axils, suberect; 
stalk 1 to 2 cm long, occasionally few branched from the 
base, very thick, similarly hairy; fruit few clustered toward 
the end, upon very thick but short pedicels, flattish, the 
basal 2 cm slenderly constricted and recurved, peach to 
orange red, covered with short tawny or fulvus hairs, round- 
ed along one side, obscurely ridged along the opposite side; 
seed solitary, shining black when dry, the basal portion 
with a thickened yellowish caruncle. 
Type specimen number 12406, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 
lanes (Mt. Giting-ginting), Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Gathered on northern wooded limestone hills toward the 
coast near Ipil. The local Visayan called it ''Tsalingwak."' 
Dedicated to Vidal y Soler. 
Only critically distinguished from Ellipanthus luzonensis Vid. 
2] Rourea imbricata Elm. n. sp. 
A tough and scandent shrub; stem crooked or curved, 
2 cm thick, rigid, 5 m high, terete, branched toward the 
top; the thin sapwood white, otherwise reddish tinged, quite 
odorless and without taste; bark relatively thick, smooth, 
brown and gray mixed, the hypodermis green, otherwise 
